Your savory breakfast links:

• Recaps and other assorted musings on last night's loss from us, Monumental video (Oates, players, Grubauer), Vogs, NHL.com, CSNW (Joe B., gamer, blog), WaPo (gamer, blog), WashTimes (gamer, blog), DCEx, Peerless, DSP (and again), Sick Unbelievable and RMNB.
  • Mike Milbury - willfully ignoring or simply ignorant of Alex Ovechkin's run of superior play leading up to last night - takes 40 minutes of sub-par play as an opportunity to question the Caps' captain's manhood, effort, maturity and pride to a national audience, overshadowing any legitimate criticisms he might have been trying to make. Alrighty then. [Puck Daddy, WaPo, WashTimes, CSNW, SI, PHT, Sick Unbeliveable, SB Nation, Capitals Outsider, RMNB, Alex Ovetjkin]
    
• Notes and assorted whatnot from yesterday's morning skate and pre-game goings-on:
  • In general. [Monumental video (Two-Man Advantage, Rinkside Update, Oates), WashTimes, CSNW]
  • With Michal Neuvirth under the weather, Philipp Grubauer got the call to back-up Braden Holtby... of course, he didn't spend the entire night backing-up. [Monumental (video), Dump 'n Chase, WashTimes (and again), WaPo, RMNB, Capitals Outsider]
• Of all the problems the Caps had last night, "Braden Holtby playing in back-to-back games" wasn't one. [Dump 'n Chase, with much more on Holtby at NHL.com]
• Some leftovers from Tuesday night's win over Carolina. [WashTimes, WaPo, DCEx, OFB, Homer McFanboy]
• So far in 2013, John Erskine has been more than just a pretty face. [WashTimes]
• The Caps are looking like they're slowly but surely headed in the right direction. [SI]
• But the Southeast Division on the whole? Not so much. [ESPN]
• Move Ovechkin to right wing and the Caps get shallow fast on the port side. [Capitals Outsider]
• Finally, happy 45th birthday to Jeff Greenlaw and happy 55th to Jay Johnston.